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Say, won't he do it? Yes, he will.

Won't he do it? Yes, he will. He'll take a stone.

Make it still.

Welcome to Susie Larson Live.

Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

that deepen your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your

life. Well, here's a question for you. What was the last time you felt exposed because of a

vulnerability, a weakness, or a hurt that surfaced? And yet at the same time, you were met with

compassion and empathy? Can you think of a time

that happened for you? What did it do for you? I'm convinced something in us heals when those parts

of our story surface in the presence of God's great compassion and empathy. And when people reflect

God's heart in such a way, the way that God would respond to us. That's how we

heal. It's not, we don't heal by not allowing those things to surface. We heal by when they do

surface. We're met by love and compassion and presence. We have got a great show for you today.

Counselors Bill and Christy Galtier joined me today to talk about their book, deeply loved,

receiving and reflecting

God's great empathy for you. And guess what? We've got a handful of copies to give away today.

And I was praying before the show that everybody who needs this book should get one. And then I

thought everybody needs this book. Because one of the endorsers said, we live in an empathy desert.

We really do. And yet it's such a key to healing to wholeness to spiritual and emotional intelligence so if you want in on the drawing

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